c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap." — Bob Hope
"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?" — Aldous Huxley
"I always separated sports and my personal life." — Carl Lewis
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday." — Thornton Wilder
"Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents." — Ron Lewis
"Sadness is also a kind of defence." — Ivo Andric
"There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation." — Robert Carlyle
"Patience is sorrow's salve." — Charles Churchill
"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food." — Kevin Richardson
"In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either." — Neal Barnard
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." — Alphonse de Lamartine
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." — Woodrow Wilson
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." — Irving Berlin
"If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job." — Anthony Anderson
"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun." — Paris Hilton
"The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls." — Black Elk
"I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work." — Ray Bradbury
"I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that." — Cissy Houston
"Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast." — Jerry Saltz
"Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did." — John Templeton
"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals." — Marc Davis
"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation." — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport." — David Ben-Gurion
"I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me." — David Sedaris
"The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel." — John Boehner
"We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone." — Michael K. Simpson
"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness." — Norman O. Brown
"But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music." — Tom Waits
"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit." — Friedrich Schiller
"We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts." — Jonathan Safran Foer
"We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States." — Jimmy Carter
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect." — Carl Sandburg
"I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design." — Trent Reznor
"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." — Reinhold Niebuhr
"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer." — Will Rogers
"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness." — Nicole Kidman
"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love." — Reinhold Niebuhr
"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that." — Joseph Campbell
"Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families." — Mitt Romney
"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love." — Francis of Assisi
"We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." — Barbara de Angelis
"A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!" — Taraji P. Henson
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable." — Aneurin Bevan
"I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore." — David Duchovny
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat." — Sarah Palin
"The future influences the present just as much as the past." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good." — Karlheinz Stockhausen
"I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have." — Gary Numan
"I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more." — Anna Paquin
"In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education." — Tom Vilsack
"Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today." — Darrell Issa
"In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force." — Charles Foster Bass
"Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state." — Tony Campolo
"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions." — Sarah Bernhardt
"The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion." — Katherine Dunham
"If you want peace work for justice." — Pope Paul VI
"The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ." — Randall Terry
"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all." — George Santayana
"What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable." — Iain Duncan Smith
"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion." — Karl Marx
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." — Socrates
"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery." — Plato
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards." — Soren Kierkegaard
"I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me." — Will Oldham
"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes." — John Stuart Mill
"Patience means restraining one's inclinations." — Tokugawa Ieyasu
"There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out." — Jeffrey Kluger
"When I come to a design decision, people know that is that." — Carlos Ghosn
"Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get." — Barbara Boxer
"It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us." — Daisaku Ikeda
"The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against." — Suzanne Fields
"I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak." — Harvey Weinstein
"I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect." — Jaron Lanier
"When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes." — Louis C. K.
"Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky." — Arna Bontemps
"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds." — Bela Lugosi
"A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business." — Jack Kevorkian
"If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that." — Larry Page
"I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved." — Dido Armstrong
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." — Charles Spurgeon
"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon." — Booker T. Washington
"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." — Lao Tzu
"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." — Andre Malraux
"You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't." — Caleb Carr
"I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad." — Dick Cheney
"How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?" — Dan Savage
"I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life." — Jerry Lewis
"Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success." — Bo Bennett
"I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy." — Patrick Swayze
"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement." — Ronald Reagan
"The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability." — Ronnie James Dio
"I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying." — Uri Geller
"When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not." — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process." — Franz Grillparzer
"I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed." — John Slattery
"I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill." — Jessica Cutler
"Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people." — Lindsay Lohan
"The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love." — Dario Argento
"The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing." — Billie Joe Armstrong
"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton." — Charles Baudelaire
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best." — Robert Hall
"The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult." — Danny Elfman
"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation." — Vannevar Bush
"We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people." — Mira Sorvino
"Yes, you must have the courage of being free." — Jose Carreras
"Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect." — Alexander Skarsgard
"Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why." — Charlie Simpson
"Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'" — Rob Sheffield
"No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer." — Harlan Coben
"Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other." — Richard Savage
"I think Polanski's an amazing director." — David Duchovny
"Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching." — Hedy Lamarr
"A man should never neglect his family for business." — Walt Disney
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it." — Mother Teresa
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity." — Horace Mann
"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development." — Anna Lindh
"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want." — Dianne Feinstein
"I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show." — Andy Cohen
"I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta." — Emma Roberts
"For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously." — George Gissing
"President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?" — Michelle Malkin
"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation." — Orison Swett Marden
"When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination." — Tim Berners Lee
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." — Elie Wiesel
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." — Salvador Dali
"The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need." — Bruce Springsteen
"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." — Maya Angelou
"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind." — Calvin Coolidge
"Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles." — Louis Farrakhan
"I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these." — Tom Glazer
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust." — Samuel Ullman
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." — George Orwell
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it." — John F. Kennedy
"Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't." — LeBron James
"I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment." — Michael Keaton
"One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me." — Ian Mcewan
"America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world." — John Doolittle
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." — Henry Ward Beecher
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." — Pablo Neruda
"If I have enough money to eat I'm good." — Shia LaBeouf
"You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor." — Hank Azaria
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." — Clifton Paul Fadiman
"I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man." — Megan Fox
"I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship." — Yulia Tymoshenko
"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion." — Ernie Harwell
"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background." — Kristin Scott Thomas
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." — Werner Heisenberg
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts." — Italo Calvino
"I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them." — Nathan Fillion
"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one." — Carlos Ghosn
"I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R." — Ethan Hawke
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." — Alan Perlis
"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process." — Joshua Lederberg
"Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor." — Anthony Edwards
"Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip." — Gary Allan
"There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher." — David Puttnam
"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week." — Ezra Pound
"Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being." — A. A. Milne
"I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer." — Jenny Agutter
"Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship." — A. Philip Randolph
"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed." — Vaclav Klaus
"If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher." — Jonathan Sacks
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom." — Gary Vaynerchuk
"Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected." — Bob Woodward
"I think marriage is ghastly." — Rupert Everett
"I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be." — Jeff Ross
"A peaceful man does more good than a learned one." — Pope John XXIII
"It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality." — Zachary Quinto
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." — Robert Anthony
"My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries." — Yo-Yo Ma
"If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing." — Marc Andreessen
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." — Irv Kupcinet
"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design." — Larry Wall
"I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating." — Sara Blakely
"Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain." — Mae West
"I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate." — Nick Mason
"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?" — Charles Lindbergh
"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness." — Kevin Kelly
"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth." — Charles Dickens
"Beauty is being in harmony with what you are." — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs." — Saint Francis de Sales
"It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult." — Craig Bruce
"Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead." — Marty Meehan
"I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education." — Tom Stoppard
"A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition." — James Cash Penney
"Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything." — Mario Batali
"Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did." — Harvey Fierstein
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." — Charles Kettering
"I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression." — Carrie Ann Inaba
"What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person." — James Lafferty
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home." — Roald Dahl
"There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself." — Doris Humphrey
"But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance." — Heidi Klum
"At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?" — Ron Fournier
"After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war." — Barney Ross
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of." — Bill Moyers
"With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic." — Chris Brown
"Marriage gives you a new respect for a person." — Katharine McPhee
"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." — Garrison Keillor
"The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward." — Helen Hunt
"God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us." — Charles Stanley
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." — Epictetus
"I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning." — John Barrymore
"Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit." — Patti Stanger
"I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that." — Harlan Coben
"When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything." — James Dyson
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." — Francis Bacon
"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty." — Edgar Allan Poe
"I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time." — Chloe Moretz
"I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world." — Giada De Laurentiis
"I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews." — Martha Raddatz
"When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family." — Lauryn Hill
"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words." — Bobby Bowden
"I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too." — Dusty Baker
"Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one." — will.i.am
"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter." — Maureen O'Hara
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore." — Jack Bowman
"I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really." — Scott Thompson
"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics." — Will Rogers
"For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation." — Judy Woodruff
"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him." — Blaise Pascal
"President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve." — Lindsey Graham
"I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything." — Usain Bolt
"Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?" — John Cleese
"The first casualty when war comes is truth." — Hiram Johnson
"I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate." — Rick Perry
"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible." — Seth Godin
"Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion." — Sri Chinmoy
"If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans." — Marian Wright Edelman
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Marriage is a religious and state issue." — Jim DeMint
"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them." — Genevieve Gorder
"People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons." — Bernie Sanders
"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting." — Bill Gates
"There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic." — Chris Robinson
"Base souls have no faith in great individuals." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps." — Dick Gregory
"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees." — Douglas William Jerrold
"It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy." — Lucy Alibar
"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." — John F. Kennedy
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." — Thomas Huxley
"One faces the future with one's past." — Pearl S. Buck
"I would like to do something modern and possibly funny." — Dan Stevens
"The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage." — Al Goldstein
"There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance." — Russell Baker
"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before." — Tadao Ando
"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad." — Jeff Bridges
"I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life." — A. N. Wilson
"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'." — Alicia Silverstone
"When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me." — Pia Toscano
"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth." — John McCarthy
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories." — Wendell Phillips
"We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude." — Jane Fonda
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." — Thomas Paine
"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene." — Kathleen Turner
"We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful." — Arnold Bennett
"I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash." — Steve Coogan
"Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor." — Evangeline Lilly
"I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it." — Harvey Weinstein
"We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art." — LL Cool J
"Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays." — Patrick White
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings." — Gustave Flaubert
"Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration." — Ron Wyden
"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai." — Orlando Bloom
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." — James Bryce
"I believe it is peace in our time." — Neville Chamberlain
"Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves." — Swami Sivananda
"We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for." — Jeremy Rifkin
"From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system." — John Shadegg
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." — Jimmy Carter
"Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something." — Plato
"What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second." — Karl Lagerfeld
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
"We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish." — George Saunders
"Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating." — Joyce Carol Oates
"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted." — Joe Shuster
"Now is the age of anxiety." — W. H. Auden
"Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others." — Daisaku Ikeda
"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is." — Margaret Mitchell
"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." — Harry S. Truman
"God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us." — Mahatma Gandhi
"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power." — George MacDonald
"When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely." — Jane Smiley
"I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'" — Archie Panjabi
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." — Plutarch
"I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting." — Janine Turner
"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." — Henry David Thoreau
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'." — Dan Rather
"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom." — Oriana Fallaci
"I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys." — Willie Nelson
"Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world." — Chris O'Dowd